We’re seeking a dynamic Strategy Consultant who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and is excited to wear many hats. This role blends strategic marketing leadership with consulting-style problem solving, supporting both internal growth and client-facing initiatives. The right candidate is a go-getter: someone who can spot a problem, take ownership, and move swiftly from idea to execution, all while collaborating across teams and keeping strategic goals in focus.
Responsibilities
- Identify issues with existing marketing and business priorities, propose, and develop solutions to achieve desired results
- Review strategy, marketing, and creative deliverables with strong attention to detail and recommend opportunities for improvement
- Build strong, consultative relationships with clients and uncover actionable business, market, audience, leadership, and operational insights
- Partner with in-house marketing team to draw insightful conclusions that can be used to develop value propositions and inform client strategy; present mission-critical research, findings, strategies and approaches to both client and in-house teams
- Perform in-depth research to understand client businesses, markets, and audiences
- Conduct interviews with internal and client customer stakeholders to draw critical messaging insights
- Work with the marketing team to build go to market plans and content strategies that align with client business objectives
- Write creative briefs and work closely with the creative team from kickoff to publishing; review final assets to ensure alignment with marketing strategy
- Collaborate with marketing operations team to understand in-market program performance and optimize program strategy and assets
Leadership
- Provide effective management for the team to mentor, develop and coach members of the team
- Develop a team culture, where expertise is shared, continuous learning and creative innovation is the norm
- Advocate for marketing best practices and ensure the customer voice remains central to all strategy work
Qualifications
- 5+ years’ experience in B2B marketing strategy, integrated multi-channel marketing, marketing communications leadership and other adjacent disciplines
- Demonstrated success in developing effective marketing strategies that have helped achieve quantifiable corporate objectives
- Experience developing and presenting strategy presentations to client management teams
- Ability to understand complex clients, markets, audiences and sales cycles
- Effectively identifies challenges and drives independent, strategic solutions
- Apt at shaping a compelling value narrative around customer, market and business data
- Experience working closely with creative teams to develop marketing program assets
- Ability to apply creative insight to evaluate design, copy, and messaging, ensuring all assets are both compelling and strategically aligned
- Understanding of a variety of marketing channels; digital, traditional and experiential
- Experience with account-based marketing initiatives
- Persuasive communications skills and ability to provide constructive feedback with confidence and courtesy
- Consulting experience a plus
About PlatinumBlack
For more than 20 years, we have developed market insights, improved business processes, unraveled complex market landscapes, created award-winning multi-channel marketing and advertising campaigns, and assimilated into 100+ companies. Our success is predicated on helping clients find new growth opportunities and creating the marketing programs that capitalize on them. But we can’t do it without extraordinary teammates. Our culture centers around an entrepreneurial and enterprising spirit–we empower our people to bring their highest value and most audacious ideas to work with them every day. We encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration and proactive team players. We are all students, and we are all teachers. As such, we are invested in the growth and development of everyone who comes through our doors, so that each of us can make the greatest impact on the world we share.
